Office for iPad gets many important features in the latest update

Microsoft has just pushed out an update for Office for iPad. Let’s look at the changelog for version 1.1 of PowerPoint, Excel and Word individually.

Changelog for PowerPoint for iPad:

Presenter View: View and edit speaker notes, see your next slide, or jump to other slides while presenting.

Play Media: Play videos, sound effects, and background music while presenting.

Insert Video: Insert videos from your Camera Roll.

Picture Tools: Crop to focus on just the right part of the photo, or reset to undo your changes.

Presenter Tools: Now you can erase highlights and drawings on your presentation.

Send PDFs: Send PowerPoint files as PDFs.

Hyperlinks: Add links to your presentation or edit existing ones.

Fonts: Third-party fonts are now available in the Fonts menu.

Changelog for Word for iPad:

Send PDFs: You asked, we listened. Now you can send Word files as PDFs.

Picture Tools: Crop to focus on just the right part of a photo, or reset to undo your changes.

Fonts: Third-party fonts are now available in the Fonts menu.

Changelog for Excel for iPad:

Send PDFs: You asked, we listened. Now you can send Excel files as PDFs.

Flick to Select: Flick a cell’s selection handle in any direction to quickly and easily select all the data in a row or column.

As you can see, the list is quite long with several new features added. Some of the important ones include saving to PDFs, third party fonts support, insert videos in presentations and more. Microsoft Office has been popular among iPad users and it seems like version 1.1 will be well received too. Grab the individual apps from the Apple AppStore below.